[Klug-general] Window Managers

[Alex Layfield]

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From: Julia Freeman <klug at quixotic.org.uk>
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:17:12 
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Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Window Managers

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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:09:42AM +0100, David Halliday wrote:
> I used to like fluxbox, it is light weight like EvilWM but a little more
> user friendly.
> 
> I liked features like tabbing of applications (you can even mix them).
> It has a feature called the "slit" which is a very versatile dock for
> applications (including monitors and in the old days a "mount app" for
> drives). While it wasn't for application launching it worked well.
> 
> The only things that Ubuntu gave me that fluxbox on Debian didn't (without
> more customisation than I was prepared to invest time on):
> - Resize windows from more than a small part of the corner.
> - A collection of GUI applications for system administration (I'm aware this
> isn't so much a shortfall in fluxbox but an aspect of Ubuntu as a distro but
> it was a big decider).
> 
> Perhaps next time I have a spare few hours I might well put Debian on my
> desktop and get back going with fluxbox.
> 
> I was interested in enlightenment, but when I tried it previously I couldn't
> get into the configuration and themes seemed complicated (this was some many
> years ago) So I imagine (hope) that things have changed in the past 6 -10
> (I'm not sure of the last time I tried it with any seriousness).

Would anyone like a talk at Dover in May on some of the other interesting
window manglers out there? 

J
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